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[McAntrim7]

I'll start with thanks for the many hours of fun. It is the best tennis game overall. But I've reached the level where it's not fun anymore. Every match is that same at the top level. They all run like Usian Bolt, they all volley perfectly and they all return serves like Agassi.

One stat feature you need that would show you a little reality is a shot chart. I guarantee the middle of the court would have maybe 5% of shots landing there. Every CPU aims for the lines no matter if they are lined up or running for their life. They never hit to the middle which means all rallies are scrambling back and forth. Reality = probably 50-70% of shots land in the middle.

I have to stop playing for sanity. I'm tired of Courier and Agassi serve and volleying and Francisco Costa and his 99% hit accuracy. Thanks though.

[ManuTOO]

Hello,

1) Yes, the left/right distribution is unrealistic (although it's probably not as bad as you make it sound 😅 ) ; it was worse in TE2013 and I did my best to make it a bit closer to real life in TE4 ; but it's not possible to do much better without much more complicated controls or just more or less forbidding to aim for the lines.
Thus said, if you still haven't, you should try the Elite controls, they force to aim a bit farther from the lines.

2) As PowerBaseliners, Agassi & Courier should do S&V on slow surfaces on 0% of their serves, on average surfaces on 3% of their serves, and on fast surfaces on 10% of their serves (that represents about 3 S&Vs when doing a 6/4 set).
I can't recall if they were doing any IRL, but for example, Nadal does the occasional S&V even on clay.
If you really don't like that, you can define a Strategy for them in the player base, completely preventing them from S&V'ing.

3) Possibly, alternatively to the Elite controls, or in addition to them, you could play with lower skills for yourself and lower the CPU difficulty level, to get a bit more realistic rallies, while keeping things challenging.🙂